Denis Villeneuve Confirmed as ‘Dune’ Director

After a short negotiating period – original rumours started back in December – Denis Villeneuve has finally been announced as the director of the upcoming Dune movie. Brian Herbert, son of the book’s author Frank, who passed away in 1986, announced the appointment on twitter earlier today. The project is still in its infancy, with no word on prospective cast or crew revealed to date, but Villeneuve’s involvement should move things forward at a greater pace. The Canadian director is no stranger to Science-Fiction with Arrival and the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 among his most recent projects.

It’s official — Legendary Pictures has signed the very talented Denis Villeneuve to direct the exciting new DUNE series film project.

Originally published in Analog magazine between 1963 and 1965, Dune follows the travails of Paul Atreides, whose noble family accepts the stewardship of the desert planet Arrakis. Speaking to Prof. Willis E. McNelly in 1969, Herbert revealed

“Dune” is an exposition of this point that man himself is going to change. We have changed, but our changes, the actual basic change is a gradual climb. Now I don’t see this as progress, I see it as a sort of entropy and as a growth of complexity. But that this is such slow process that in thousands upon thousands upon thousands of years we would still recognise the emotions, the reactions, all of these things and given any set of forces which you can delineate: the silver mine, the geriatric spice, the existence of certain hard lines of power control and communication.

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